Science and Modern America

科学与现代美国

• 批准号: 9601913
• 负责人: Stuart Leslie
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601913&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Modern; America

Science has had a powerful transformative influence on contemporary U.S. cultural, challenging and reshaping traditional social values. In turn, U.S. social and political values have shaped the course of science in ways that have not yet been fully examined. Focusing on the cultural authority of science, this research will combine two traditions of historical research to examine the reciprocal influences of science and culture in the contemporary U.S. One tradition is organizational in character, concentrating on the connections between expert knowledge and the state. The second tradition examines the ways that scientific knowledge itself responds to the cultural context in which it is undertaken. The results of this work will be published in a book, currently under contract with the Cambridge University Press.

科学对当代美国文化产生了强大的变革性影响，挑战和重塑了传统的社会价值观。 反过来，美国的社会和政治价值观塑造了科学的进程，其方式尚未得到充分的研究。 本研究着眼于科学的文化权威，将联合收割机的两种历史研究传统结合起来，考察当代美国科学与文化的相互影响。一种传统是组织性的，集中于专家知识与国家之间的联系。 第二个传统是研究科学知识本身对它所处的文化背景的反应方式。 这项工作的结果将在一本书中出版，目前正与剑桥大学出版社签订合同。